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AMeumbat'aplee aetthln Awr y w lgth
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SI tok that fellow with a hlas," th
aid a nasuralist w:o had retntly re. 1111
tured flar a cols tag t our isoth I a1
SeL, a to a 'nW reporter, potlint kilb
to a mgllseet sahkeskia m re thaun at
tweaty two rest I leit that h"i new
n, .she t . eb aN i ,e plad n this Wi
i.s e" he otlssd. obrg the lk
of iaredul ty upon his viitor's ae. Am
"I was way up the Amanon, and being ttees
anxious to get a large sake, I oered s tlb1l
reward for os., mand -os heard sa wou
big frew that had been aees about that
three mk from wheve I wa". I Ir.
mediately mused Is the ieighborhooad. o I
ai alter we hal asrured Ie country
ierali days the by I had with mos
ea rusauig through the tes in guat Ira
e1--etrmet, Ins t s~hb bg bai the Itb t
saubras ats) were has lag a tight. e elt
ssabesbv the wavar r ats that se
put so ight mea d beast s they e.
crter a houes the owner ,epe out m i o°
tan. for his lie, sad whes I ca up
to the sake I fad it l a dmilar tl. the
It was a magalleest spe'imen. It had or.
swallowed some tessedimgly large nal. ;thci
a, ad, while almt unable to move. x
bad oe attacked by the aats. The ihay
rIa. bushes, twigs sad leaves w.re u/
Idlk lith the ta'ime and mev me. Im
met or two the great reptile would lift -I
Itelf la the ir tsad way absut savage. tihe
Iv, but only to fall bk again. I saw 1lo
that the ant, would dearoy It I as' Bl
bor., so I set my hoyr bhk the tih
village to get a roe, ad took to the ~1
ttae maysal.
'In half an bouar he returmed with
twesty me. I made a lasou, ad. sdet- ,
ting sear the snake. suceeded in
Sthrow.Ig it over his head, but I became
fairly covered with ants, so that I hal
a tornsh way ad roll the brush to
rid myself of them. However, we all
taludl, liased the rope, and managed of1
to drsg the maske ooto his retreat and be
away rom the ants. Itwasso slufgih At
der this rough treatmnt that Iwas Ish
able to place my pistol within six inches abi
of bef ad whe I shotit I soo had cia
is toap aid the skin takes of. I spy
wsated the skeleto also. butthe natives ; r
stole it l the aight, sad my speimen ae
went for stews the next day. Ifoe mea to
Is not bad. mad s very generally U en w
la may loeoittle. wi
S Its gre sa milstake to think that it
makes are useless. They are, in the Irt
iart pines. oxtremely valuable as ti.
avge. The meat of trhela s
klds i een. The skna are Ia .el
Sabe e leather, sad even here are mon-' in
sidredfauhloabM when made into to
bgs sf peekbek mveers. Thea -
tbheo rol tle amkee d aa ly oll T
ether serpets is ale le. Urotalha s
comes from the rattmules e uad pper"
head This ekM aU tewall is by no l
an e of the largees Very few di
people n be made to believe that th
sheas atla the sies meatioMed by i,
satwrallsts. Nevertheless, gigmatio
o kesdoesh et n lorsnee sliSt. 'a
Jod measured makes tweanty-s feet w
lWlegth. R laIses, the asrslist, If
os d i 8udtl America manr watr i e
ben that we Swaty feetn se.st the o
l~rgist es everepprl tod vobees N.
wmeasthwIa veomabed fro by the ci
well·nawi btaslat Dr. Gardner. h
The moister had lswalowed a horse ci
ad hd n attsward bees drwe j
by kigsweptdow river by a over- f t
ow ~Ta whe feoad after th)e aUttling, ei
Ste t water. It was m la a tre.a
It peeted a meat miacble spe.o .1
tsbsg forty feet and dis- ci
tded tou s m omou These I.
serpests o!tea calld Teaaculloaa ' a
5 lUi. mesalag 'lighttg with lve meIN.' s
A akia o ose formrl I the British _
Musem is tirtyAve f loee g. a
"Andamus observ asahe tn Fenoe .
dal hatsyf fe length sau a
two msi a hlf l dimte r, while o
Waerton 1tells as tha a Spanird d
rshowed Im a askis at Aglosors, the !
f the (rlego, that tom Its e
t. tyeo heo Judlged to have been that t
af a ereat seve#t foe long. I a
dams te authr, fouud srpeata in
Ceylem thritys feet Ia length. sd id
Java he aw oe e had swallowed a
b, etatire Owea, Ia his 'oturtlr
d usrylerlerten' glieo the length u
f eou an !fty | u idFther (umil|, ic
Slbl 'H Itorl of Wrinoko,' refers toa
Irpes feet long: so that it
would seem fr to auppowe that snakesI
do attai' what might be oalled gi~atlo
d melou. Os the Rio lranmo the
trades ad ausives Ieport that matkes
swallow full-staed orattle, and this roa
be reidly ooeived. The hertas of
Oours, rse not swallonwed. The snake
llrs a a lethargi coaniitioau .autil they1
" A em eamu to my bsaring," one.
ined the naturalist, "of a euriousa
aceident oisuloned by asnako that had
swallowed a deer. A nartive p halnhl'
the boly. Iad thinkln the reptile dead i
Uempted 13 ut It, when the monster 1
S writh rad hnr ae it head at the man
wIth so munh force thatl the projecting;
Mhorspelatrated his luns and killel
h t. . MeLeod. who was the his.
toraof the 'Voyage of the Aloeste,'
was cptned mad kept a priaoer for
maer months at H bida, on the coes
ol Afritoe, ad he sates that h6 oh.
Ssrved make nearly sixty feet In
a leugL. Tles of fabulous mnakes are
commos Ia hispr. V!erhus Maimus,
qsut.Li rofersto the alam Into
whieh th. Lato thrown l
ma _a "eoa rpont a bd it5 saire
o the banks of'the ]rdus, near
S Utica This ·sakecrdu to Pliny'
w oe ms d ared if8ty et lemg.
I'rtU refren to makes Is the Asiti
islmals s that need thirty-lx feet In
eg hu . and bentios that he has seaen
peras estig the fleh of lag sl
taptured by sa taken from akes.
"Her Is a ruttleseike," meatinued
te mae at f of ass ieisma
oer I ibt nLrt1ll-, ad before the
wam was Nalleu IsFoad e day,
" whilodhtl a the roeat of atrae, wish
d mbows q s1 hase snake crawled
out bewe h foeet. e rmaled
' qul it- was everal feet
V. tahe he shot i with
I t t ko hirmed.
"'ei hues ate"U.aesya
w tr , f av isd lmelt aly .aao
,a a sad e. urastoa Mr
s,'ed by a wrtbes etighlms thet
nigs. lit was seen hanmgg dews
tims them ralere, as onse i lsof salvesi.
meeg t. rushfet of the door, drag. leg b
ag thl e me51'rt ti vil. attemptd the r
to rlgasi its bld. tI bile beimg whirkld drink
anail aut ars t the rept le was their
lull staned by boig dashed ilast eoai
Sitre. A SMilay host amhced ote half
nijht along tie shore of ome i tle wase
'eeles. and a m' a was seat ashore i rm Ii
*eaesh of the betel nout. oon after. ke.
wardi UH crew w.re aroused by his Inisn'
wmreams, and is f,.dlning them up see
lead him in the folds o: a gaite bumilt
pthiom. It was killed, a4 it wease thee
that the arms of the man IIue bore the I
sins of teeth marks, his ribs and other ltou
toehs being crushed into spliltUe by .stsj
the sonsretive folds. The eobol of adl
lali Is thx most dread nlof all O It es, saki
nI asiaauy tuthuaIs of natives are saii
killed by them r eary. Wa'lace sayll that fat
st one plae ia Malay they were se an Pena
atremr that, on an average a native him
wa" wkilled emry dlay  the ear. and
** The mr anmood snakes of iouth samo
Amerk ati e a habit of hanging from it, a
tr es over the water, with portio s of '"
their bodies eo:eaesled, so that they and
would easily be taken lor thegreat vioe knoc
that grow esso luuriantly ithm to ever
ts, and this was they obtain m h ty
of their prey that comes useuspleiuusly this
along, re human gas mot being wre
eeted. Kiagnsy relates ma osenr. n for
res whem four youg women were les
bth7a ing is a alag one of them mew
ell herself kuld from behiad. At the
rt she thh it a prank of oneoeher jar.
compeanons. but the lorm of mn enrm. of sl
ous ske soon appeared. It had fast. w n
Senrued its teeth to her bathinIagre but bros
i he others anceelded In frahtening it a lm
o r. When they re gorged with lood Iw
they coil up closely asd re'emble a =ore
at mp. and ac e is known of a native cii
lhaving made the aistakeof sittingdewn The
, upon one with results astoinshing to ear.
both seat Bad siLer. W tertos, is re. ace
lerring to the eamondi snakes, says the
that 'pimawns from thirty to forty feet lie
long have been killed, sad that the vel
spaniards of Brazil positively alrm
that In teo unfretulented diLtriots these l
serpelts somletimes attain a length of you
seven!y feet. and will destroy the rigl
Slargest and strongest bultl. They cmli wet
them matatore, which means, literally, mat
Sbull-killers.' "-.. Y. inn. mil
IL It is unaeoessary for a child to die
d of the scarlet fever as it is that it sh ild you
dbe bliad with a cataract, let us see. wuo
h At any time before the body has ib. frel
Sished lt4 ine.l'ectual strrugle we are to
' able to help it, not by wonderful medi, gin
d claes, but by the knowledge of rautoe to1
I my, and the application of oommon toe
sense. Wee aanult the sympathetio see
n nerve, and do what it commands us an
t to da. We must give this child alt sto
a, when it wnants it; we must give It mid kea
when It has fever and anxiously raves the
at it-not tlnegar, but lemon uice, be. to
o ! cuse the first coagulates albumen, and arc
s the latter does not, on ocount of the we
i~ rplus of oxylle which it ontalin abs
me To ir tate the soothing muaes inthe le
' intties, which is now watia and an
to to give some respir ory food al oi
-m same time, we aid some gm araie. w
dll To restore and relieve the jored Clu
ia nerve, we appy moist warmth. I loa
If" p lettle we eas tulfil all this with the w
so following simple manipulations: UnI* w
ew dress the child and bring it to bed at
t the ry first sign of slnes. Give atl
by it if it has already fever, nothing but cu
Sourish warm lemonade with some gum so
t. arabli li it. Then cover its abdomen a
.1t with some dry flanneL Take a well- Ht
t, Ifolded bed sbeet and pat it boliag
er hot water; wriag it out dry by means
he of dry towels and put is ov'er the
n datael eon tbe child's abdomen. Then
ed eowerthe whole, sad wait. The hot of
he cloths wilL perhaps, require repeated e
ar. heat. Aeordingto the severity of*the te
Sce, sad Its stage of progress, perspi. b
traion will commence in the hi.d ila
tr- from ten minutes o Iwo hours. The ml
a, ebild is then saved: it soo falls to k
a; sleep Loon after the bild awakes, it m
o i shows slight symptoms of rettrning in. .
lis- elination for food: help its boweli, if
e ecessary, with lanjections of oil, osp h,
sh.ald water, and its recovrery will be. a
'." stemdy as the growth of a reen houe
ash plant, I well treated. O oourse if
the child was already dyinl, nothing a
-. eoold sae it, or if it h. ~ars dy el- g
al fusions i the lianig of the beart or *
lie brai, it is muooh hbeolter thatit should
_rd die. But if the above is applied in due
the time, under the eves and direction of a
its competent physlidea, I will guarastee
hat that not one in 1 hundred oblidrem will
ml- ever die of sarlet fever. I know this a
in will startle some of my reders, es
in reIlaly those who harve lost children I
I a already, but I shall o still farther. I J
ral maltain that a child will never et6
•th sriat feve." if Pro y tiatled. If n
1• ch 1d ha _oriy mied blood, it will ,
to not eateh the disorderf put in bed with d
it a slik hild. Th!s is still more start.
kee linig. but nothlig in easier of prooL
tioe food ileuLh I
the
A Deg Whips a h er.
of
iake When Dr. W. M. Clark lived with his
i.y family in the Sixth Distriot of Davidson
County. he owned m small rat doag. ma
n. gUlish terrler, namedJmok. Jacl was
iouns a remarkable dog, On one ooousion he
had killed one hundred rate, and when he
ecame out of the pit was hardly reeog
nilzed by his friends. His ears were
ster gone. and his legs and throat were as
- raw u pieoe of un:ooked beefliver.
in But he killed the rat.. and won e
11 wager.
his. O another orasion Jack had fight
wte' with a ecoon and came out victorios,
for1 killing the coon in the third round. Helie
oat had numerous fights with fighting dogs
ob. much lager and-older thanl himelf. but
Sin be always eame out victorious. His
are maner of ighting n dotg was to watch
nusu, his ohances and selse him by.one of his
into ears. Onee his teeth were fastened
.a b here, there was no getting him lone
lar until his antagonist squealed enongh
near ad started on a dead run forhome with
lny, his tall stored safely away between h's
g.. legs. Whenever this would happen
s Jack would let up n his enemy and
it In whine for other enemies to conquer.
mea But Jaok's ch'ef triumph was when
hogs h whipped a bear. A neihbor of Dr.
Clark owned a pettberol ordil srize.
e One day while visitlng his neighbor.
wg. Jack sad the hear fell out. and ach
std q ladhmself for a ght. Jasek held
e s of until in founada opportunity
the to eateh him bythe ear, and theon he
d, wont in. Jask wu agresLtjumper, Ia
wi th lnstuane he made hi mlest leap
uled and landed oea te bek aL enemy.
ed Quikl seilng him by the ear, the dog
ifeet hibody out of reachof the bear,
with nd ilserted his ruh teeth for all they
md, wre worth.. The er fought wilth
anl pirl, and made igorous etorts tosend
sped Jack to ame bnt all i val. That
SI. dogwlnotletga F ls lie r,
inne ams"s" exhaind o gve an despir
1mIbt erary om tathelco to
afew adit li believed he
4 e thebearilleftahwar..
ihrhf C'v TpIm. jer,
Half a dosea rad men were rstad. of d
lag by the I atoe depot tunch counter owns
the other night, waiting for a train. 'it dm
drinking cole,' and tellnu storiesabout iced
their exper;en es in railroadian. An bran.
engineer was mak;ng c a'rel tra.ks ina 8abe
half of a pie. and etween swallows he hhto
was enteraining the boys about a fast in Iit
run he made one day between Milwanu ornle
ke.* and I.a ('rume. when the "old bas c
m.an' was in a hurry to get up there to more
see abs t the Iridge that was be;ng tree!
built titere. As he was describing how
the ensin and two oas lairly blistered
the rails between Portage and Camp
Mouglas, a frightened looking man To
stetlpel up and a ked for a cup of coflee and I
and some doughnuts, and bile he was lion
snaking a dotghnut in the eonlee, h' the u
said they dihdn't know anything about and,
fast iunning unless they had etewn on the glan
Pennsvlvanla Rola. The men asked lngl
him what he knew ab,.ut fastunning. hle
and he turnet out somee coffe in a Ann
saucer, blew on it, to cool it, swallowed grea
it, and said: and
"Well, I jllust got here from the East, stu!f
and I have witnes.cd railroading that are
knocks the socks off of anything that absti
ever was. We started out of Jers" thev
Otity one nlalrht at eight o'esk. and up t t
this side of l'hiladelphia there was a Eng
wreck ahead of us, and we side tracked univ
for six hours, and when the track was nibk
clear we started. Well, sir, that train the
flew, fa'rly flew. We didn't realise in en
the car that we were going fast, by any the
jar. for it was ust as smooth as a parr and
of skates on smooth ice, but if a man fash
went out on a t'latform he could not ;,e
breathe. The nigger started to bring and
a lunch from the, hotel car into the ear of
1 was in, and while be crossed the plat- olsi
:orm the comlt' froe as still as ice eod
cream, anti a man ate it with a spoon. E
The nigger wasa raidto go back intoh!s that
ear. ant waited till the train stopped at l)ut
a oal plines The conductor told me fu U
the train was going faster than abtt:leL dig
He said the engineer often ;hot his re PP
vol er up the track ahead, and the en. em
gino would overtake the bullet end tinat
p tia it against the smoke stack. I)14 wil
you ever see a passenger train jump are
t right over a freiht train, when both bro
were in motion?' asked the doughnut ,ol
man, as he tilled his co.lee cup up with and
milk. the
"O, what you giving us?" said the an
engineer, as he loosened the leather lelt the
around his greasy overalls, and looked me
at the man with disgust.
s "Wel, you don't have to believe it if
I you don't want to, but 1 pledge you my as
word our tran jumped right over a lon
freight train ahead of us. We come up
s to it, on a straight track, and our en-a
gineer signaled to the freight engineer
to slow up a little, anti the conductor b
n told us to keep our seats. We had
a seen the freight tra: ahead on a cua:rve,
S and wondered why our train did not
a stop. When the conductor told us to 6
I keep our seats, I asked him what was
e the matter, and he said we were going w
I* to jump a freight, and if we moved h
it around we would jar the cars so they
e wouldn't be so liable to hit the trackol
I. ahead, when we comedown. Just then
a could feel the train go into the air. o
4 sand hear the wheels turn with no track
twider thetu and in less than tensconore
. wdben to descend, and I could hear y*
d the weels on the track ags n, and I 1
U looked back and the freight engineer e
t wawa' ing his hat at us. Why, there
D* was no more jar than there is in this
at room now. Of course they wouldn't
re attempt to jump a freight train on a or
at curve or In a tunnel," and the man m
m scratched a mat h on his pants, and lit es
ta cigar stub he had been keeping.- e'
II. Pck's Bun.
n slavery In BraulL t
sa On the 80th of June lat" the province
0tof Rio Grando ds Norte had l10,18l
d slaves, the 13,808 reglistered tap to ep. N
10 tember 30, 1873, having been reduced 1o
1i by 1,105 emancipations. 817 deaths, and ,
in 1,704 departures. I'he o 'in enuoe'
e alivre at the same date were 3,7,9, be.
to sides t110 delivered up to emancipated
it mothers In Sergipe there were:'t.I7; o'
. slaves at the end of June, the 31,9!36
i registered up to September 30, 1873,: d
P having been diminished by 1,871 eman.
* elpations, 3,892 deaths, and 1,128 do.
urse. The "lag nuos"' were 7,2o0, A
S =side 112 delivered to freed mothers
and 21 to the State. The slaves in Rio
Grmnde do 8ul numbered t8,7f3l at the
or end of Juane, havng decreased since i
ald September 80, 1878. 9,100 by eulmneipa. ,
u tious, 6,895 by deaths, and 1.762 by
Sexemss of departures over entries. 4f
t lapas.,, owing freo birth to the law
rllof 1871 there were 24,779 alive at tihe
his eand of June last, besides 78'9 delivered
* to freed mothers, sad 1* to the State. I
e The slaves of Para numbered 23,611 on 1
Sthe 80th of June, the 29,894 registered i
at the end of 8eptembe., 1878, having t
been mdane~d by 4,2C1 emaneipations a
aill ad 2,768 destths but lnoreased by 631 t
It etrie. The "ingenuoe" were,434,
besides 988 delivered to emaneipated I
mothers and 2 to the tat. The slaves I
in Alagoas numbered, June 30 last, 29,.
879, being 4,755 fewer than we reggs. I
toered up to September 80,1l, asne I
which date the deaths were 3,027, and I
h the eman .iptlions 1,748, being an actual
deorese of 4.718. besides which the I
nuamber was diminished by 1,970 de
partures in exoessof entries. The num- I
Sber of living ehildren treed at birth by
the law of 1871 was 7,34. including 104
delivered up to freed motbers, and two
Stransferred to theoGovernment. :n the
a0th of June, 1880, the slaves in Ama
sonaswere 1,716, the 1,516 registered up
to september 80, 187;, having been in
reased by 344 more entries than de
martures from the provine, and dimin
g hed by 44 deaths and 99 emancipa
Dt eos. At the end of June there were
He 836 children owing free birth to the law
lof 1871.-Anglo-.razirin 2.me.
itch The Oldest Tree In lartford.
Ihis .
oed The oldest tree in Hartford since the
ose fall of the Charter (ak is located a few
gh feet south of the warehouse formerly
wih occupied by 31. W. Chapin, at the foot
ahs of Ferry street. It is a sycoamore, or
pea buttonbell, and is known in the books
ad as flaNamu occidcna~ei, and by the
. English is called plane tree. It is eight
rhen feet in diameter at the ground, and
gtr twenty-two feet tive feet from its
si ase. When the first explorer came up
lbothe Conaectiout River it stood on the
ach lhigh ground on the river bank and has
hed been a familhar feature of that locality
Iityever sne.
a he Its trunk is hollow, being a mere
Inshell, js as it was when the writer of
leap this paratraph first saw it, over fifty
years since. It. main limbs and
branches were as sound and thrilty last
be, season as they ever were. Th a grand
they old tree, thalt it has taken three or four
with hundred years to produce, and the last
send of the old trees thatdantedate the hjstory
Tht of our settlement, has had several nar
hear, row escapes of late. Last rear the
par, boys, In mlitation of other boysi that set
SAre to the old Charter Oak before its
fall. builtbs bare Isido of it whie~
would hve been aitend. bt. by the
- m1a r ah~ a al f r n eirn.n
r,. a resildent of that aeIghborhaod,'
got permission from President l'alocek
of the \alley Railroad, which company
owns the land on which it stands, to cut of the
it down for firewood. iavid had stic hair li
' c'eded in cutting ofT a iart of the main -A
branches when th. nattentio'i of Mlr. put tl
ilabco k was esal'd to the fact of its ing ti
hiitor:cal importance as the oldest tree merri
in Itartford, and he coantermande.l the ant to
order, and DIavd will remove what hie treati
has cut dwn and give the o'd tree one and Ii
more chance. " \\oodman. spare that -i
'tree!'-l- rtljrd (CoinH.) 2i,,us. see, i
he de
The Ildday Dinner. ome
has.I
To consume a hearty m!ddlay meal lady
and to take a full hour for its oonsum p- robe,
tion would be tantamount to a return to $1.0(t
the manners of pre.lndependen e days, taste
and, indeed, to the manners of old En- . rc.
gland. Misson, a French traveler: in _
England, quoted by Mr. John Ashton in of thi
his "Social Life in the Reign of Queen of th
Anne," remarks: "The English eat a centl
great deal at d nner; they rest awhile, age.
and to it again, till they. have quite Gove
stul!od their paunch. 'their suppers ated
are moderate-gltttons pt noon. anl ernot
abstLpent at night. I always heard tha si.
they wertri fteslh-eaters,uad Ifo:nd rgs
it true. I ha e knowr many people in -l
'ngland that never eat any bread, and
universally they eat very little; they ate a
nibble a 'ew crumbs, while they chew hi
I the me.+t by whole mouthfuls." When s
Sew England was an English colony mule
the universal dinner-hour was noon,
r and traditions of the staple of the old- pair
f fashoned fare yet linger in the favorite a 1
t ew Eng'and dishes, pork and beans ars
f and Inulian pt:diling-the last a compost
r of "corn' meal an I molasses. In the -
oldl Kniickerhocker days of New York, wide
3leople dined early and substantially, distil
:lut we may rest toler:ably well assured ever
that the comnortable and phlegmat:e She
t Dutch burghers of Manhattan took the inaai
® fu lest of hours for the'r meal and its deat
dligetion. After the dinner came a she
p pe many pipes, probably. The mod- 1e10s
ý crn Americans are not a pipe smoking She
Speople, ani, to judge from the "sand sent
wih and piee of-pe allegati n," the was
are slightly amenable to the charge Wad
bro ght by lrillat Savarin aga'nst Na
t poleon the Great of "eating quickly
ah nd eating badly." Yet the author of
the "P'hvsiologte du (;out' belonged to -
a nation who have never swerved frm Win
It their ct;stom of eating a good midday says
d meal. his
The Frenchman's breakfast is "cafe
an lailt" and "bread and butter," just bin
,as the Spaniard's "de-ayvuno" is a cp gtni
of chocolate, a morsel of dry bread, dwi
and a glass of cold water; but the Gaul ing
ur st ha:e his second and substantial tah.
r breakfa-t at nodn; and a "de euner a
la ourchette" may be detined, without
exaggeration, as a dinner "minus" only told
e, the soup. The Germans have a "'mit
tagessen,' or midday meal. at which Hn
they eat soup; but the evening meal
w th the old-fashioned Touton is supper
and not late dinnera Most of the hotels
hold two tables d' hote a day, one at the try
old-fashioned and one at the new-fan- smi
n gle t hour. Noontide is, from the point eye
of v'ew of health, perhaps the time at "
ek which a "a ian,e" meal should most ap
propriately be eaten; but, unfortunate.
Sly, Ife wish to keep our digestion nn- cit
impaired, we must rest awhile after an che
r early dinner. C(ur French neighbors, sat
breakfasting copiously at noon, seldom et
di think of returning to business until do;
* half-past one; frequently they remain Nt
over their cigars and coffee until two p.
m. But, with the Anglo-Saxon races, ma
lit "time is money," and they grudge an
ever-y minute during the hours of busi- do
ness wh eh is not devoted to the pur.- "i
suit of Mammon. In the south of ina
France the noondlay meal is followed by I
the"'siesta' and from twelve to half
past two in the a'ternoon mercantile
and linane'al business Is almost entire- B
J 'v suspnded. It is quite as hot at tol
'P New York as it is at Marseilles or Tou- ha
Id lon. bhut what business New Yorker bu
sP would think of taking the solace of a mi
' "sie-ta" after lunch? If Americans Ch
Sand Englishmen would rise a little
ted earlier, and get through the maior part
of the day's business-as foreigners do ye
-in the forenoon, the substantial mid. th
' day meal might become a possibility, to
ap romiding much benefit to their general ci
health and spirits; but such a change in m
* Anglo-Saxon manners could not be et- l
le fected, perhaps, without bringingabout
tio alrmig disturbances in transactions 's
the relative to 'sall money, "gray shirt- .
nee ing," pork, gold, grain, and railway ,
'shares.--I.ondon 2'elegrapl le
y01
law Catehing Smelts Ia lake Chalmuplls. e
ired Winter fishing is now being enjoyed tI
ate. by those who are food of the sport. y
on The lake at Burlington has just closed
red in. and the smelt-lishers have moved y
rng their little hats on runners out to the
Ions aocustomed grounds. Moderm improve- a
631 ments have made this sport one of the y
434, most luxurious imaginable. Instead of tl
kted kneeling in the cold wind beside a con- a
ives stantly freesing hole in tA ice, the fish
, erman now sits at ease in his neat little 1,
gs movable house, sarmed by a stove, and i
ae keeps watch of two or three lines let k
ad down throngh holes in the floor and
tual corresponding holes in the ice. He
the smokes and re .ects, or talks with a
de companion, and is as comfortable as a
Im- millionaire before his grate of glowing
Sby ese-coaL Besides being a lazy amu e
104 meat smelt fishing is a pretty profitable t
two employment, as the fish are eseeedilng
y the I t othome, andti bring a good price in
nma- the local markets. An attentive and
,d p persistent fisherman will make about
n in, as much out of his day's sport as a
de. laborer who comes home sore and stiff
min- at night with his hard-earned pittance.
cipa- The genius who sits on his bench and
were maniI ulates the little lines is usually a
law jolly, hospitable sort of a fellow, and
is Iperfectly willing that the blue-nsed
skater should seek refuge occasionally
in his cosy little house, and even
permits him to handle one of the lines
for a while. It he should chance to
ethe bring a young lady companion with
Sfew him, the ancient fisherman becomes a
nerly model of gallantry. He lays his black
foot pipe under the stove, resigns his warm
B, or seat to the fair one, and ulaces all his
mos piecatorial resources at hei command.
Sthe It is pleasant to note the immense satis
eight faction with which he rtsigns to her the
and line upon which he has just detected a
m its timid nibble, and when, follow ng his
me up directions, she hools the unhappy tish
a the and draws it up through the ice with a
bas little scream of mingled terror and de
calty light, his eyes shine with approbation
and pie sure, mad he feels as proud as
mere did the Canadian woodsman who ni
tr of tiated the Princess Louise into the mys.
fifty eries of almon.fishng. But When he
ad removes the struggling ictim and coolly
y last bites out its eyes with his teeth for a
grand fresh bait, the situatlon becomes em
r four barrassing in the extreme, and the cosy
le lasthut no longer possesses any attraction
jstory for the young siaters. They beat a
I ar pre ipitate retreat, leaving the hospita.
r the bl proprietor in such a state ofi
It set ishment and perplexi
n itasthe tish's
entin the memory of
I wasa !-Batrlhgton (fVC.) Cor.
(4,7,) 1Yuuas.
EIESONAL AND LITERAR. (
-Colonel James Coulter, a member -
of the 'T'ennessee Legislature, wears his
hair like a woman, bangs and all.
-Authors of the olden time used to Nanni
putT their own works by atlixing "tak- g 1
ing titles" to them, such as "A right Iloe
merrle anud wittio lnterlude, verie pleas- l. I
ant to reade, ete;" "A marvelous w'ttie O'
treatise, etc;" "A Ilelectable, l'ithic
and Righte Profitable Worke, etc." 'ni
-Repr.seutative Moore, of Tennes- Has e
gee, is so proud of his wife's beauty that ,N"
he delights mn presEnting to 'her hand
some dresses selected by himself. He 'Tis b
has s good taste in such matters as any with
laldy of fashion. lie lately bought a Rut
robe, as a surprise for her, costine rt,
$1.,000. Few wives will deny the goof Dut b
taste of such a husband.--. U. Pica. You
er. "Fon
--Mrs. Sarah Whitman Parris, widow nor
of the late Governor Albion K. Parris, sh6 '
of this State. died in Washington re- Trsr
cently, in the ninety-third year of her "Ca
age. Her husband was the second
(overnor ele*.ted after Maine was cre
ated into a State in 1822, and was Gov.
ernor when General Layette made
h..."". this. ita-
drgus*.
-liloodgood H. Cutter, an eccentric er is
man, whois known as "the poet lanure- O
ate of Long Island," attracted attentioA beth
while riding in New York the other day. wall
His vehicle was drawn by a prancing step
mule and a venerable horse. Clad in a dret
pair of high-topped Napoleon boots and that
a coat of many colors, the .miling poet tows
laureate looked the picture of innocence a ne
abroad.-N. Y. Time*. and
-Mrs. Tyler, the ex-President's Her
widow, is in Washington. She eo~oys the cart
distinction of being the only woman who over
ever entered the b. hite HIouse as a bride, the
She has a yo ng dauhter, who w is an a h
in:ant at the time of the ex-President's wa•
death, in 1862. She is very atTable, but crau
she has not forgotten the stately man. E
ners that were in fashion forty years ago. lug
She wears her har ust as it is repre- RIo
sented in the girlish portrait of her which why
was painted when she was a bride.-- Wh
Wasi inUton Post. age
HUM11IUOU4 on
- out
-In reply to the question: "Is Willie doc
Winter a poet?" tie t'hiladelpha Nci: err
says: "He used to be, but he has had the
his hair cut." not
--A girl just returned from a Boston
high school, said upon seeing a fire :n. now
gine at work: "Who would evah have
dweamed such a vewy diminutive look- ski
in g apawatus would hold so much wat- wi
I ta.--St. Louis (Glob. the
--Fred. aged seven, was handling a wei
valuable book carelessly, and his mother ant
r told him to put it down on the table. see
He did so unwilling y. and remnarked: clif
^' When I'm married, I shall not have to the
obey mamma." mil
-When we see a t ghtly-laced woman wa
trying to enjoy a gooi laugh with a a
smile on her mouth and tears in her to
t eyes. we think of the dear old h mnn ere
lt hich beg ns: "Let ,oy be unaontined." in.
. -Boston Post. tot
--A German at a hotel table in this ea
- city the other day had some Limburger m
n cheese sent to him. A little boy who st
, sat beside him turned to his mother and en
u exelaimed: "Mamma, how 1 wish I was
II deaf and dumb in my nose."-Ci,4cago
n Nto.'. ti
--"Yes, sir," replied a meek-looking ,
" man who was asked if he had sultered w,
b any reverses; "I've seen more ups and n
t downs during my life than most men."
- "Indeed! What do you (lo for a li h
I iag?" inquired the philanthropist '. O li
I run an elevator.str. - C'hicago Hrald. .
-'lhe Mayor and members of the m
Board of Aldermen of Bro kton are anti- a
tobacco men, and the Mayor of Boston ju
has forbik'eo smoking in the City Ha I; as
but after all an American soverein l
may use tobacco in that building if-e
Schews.-Lowell Courier. br
le -The fortieth marrage anniversary 'a
irt is "woolen." It is discouraging for ac
lo young e uple just starting out. to think £
d. that they must shiver on together for a
y, fort years before their friends will t
al chip in and furnish the material to W
i make them comfortable.-Burlington E
if- Hawkeye.
Et -"What's orbs, Sallle?" "Orbs? e
s Why, as to how, Maggie? Who said
rt- so?" "Well, you know that city chap s
Swas sparking me last night, an' leo 1
looked me squ!are in the face and sung t
out: 'Oh! it could always Iask in the i
Sellulgenece of those bright orbs." b
"lHumph! I gess thatmust be what tl
ld they call eves that squint; but what do
rt. you suppose he wanted of abasque?"
ed -Footpads on ,'ark street-"Hold up a
ed your hands." \ ietim--"All right: but t
he what do you Want?" "Your watchand
Te- money." "Yes, of course, but beg s
he your pardon, you don't mee gaize me; I
of the plumber took down that ne t street '
n- a few minutes ago; Pm an editor, and e
sit--" "Here, take this quarter to uy a t
ttle lnch of cheese and something warm. I
nd iln. and go about your business."--Tos a
let ledo Asserscan. I
atd t
Rules for a Rssilas Club.
After much discussion, the eommittee
ag of a certain clu' in a remote Russian
b town has drawn up the following set of
rules for the guidance of its members.
The code seems to be as Draconian as
and it is original:
ot (1) 1o one shall enter the club with
u dirty boots. (2) No one shall wear his
i workaday clothes if they are impreg
t nated with unpleasant smells, nuch as a
and scent o lish, lather, pt h. etc. (3)
At the clutb dances black cloth is laid
ad down as the correct dress. (4) In bhad
, weather, when the streets are muddy.
ally all members of the club must wear slip.
en per, so as not to dirty the Iloor. (6)
inesWhoever shall dare to put in an appear
to ance at a club ball in a velvet waistcoat
ith or a green eravat renlers himself liable
to a tine of a ruble and a hali, to be put
c aside for the benefit of the musicians.
arm (6) (A very stringent rule this). It is
his expressly forbidden that lthy member,
and in the course of a s,,r.e ,ansante, shall
tis- use the ball-room curta'ns for a pocket
the handkerchief. If he does be wil be ig
n , nominiously kicked out. (7) The man
hiswho smokes (also at a soiree damsne)
ish in the portion of the elab set aside for
th a ladies shall be instantly tined twenty
I de. live kopecks, to go toward the purchase
tion of powder or ean de Cologne for the
Ida ladies (8) Nomember wlio may hap
in. pen to be exhilarated, no matter how
mys. late in the evening, shall be allowed to
n he introduce the can-can in a set of quad
oozy rilles.
for a The other rules-prescribe that no one
em who is tipsy "'beyond the hIouns of de
cosy cency" shall remrain in the hal
ction The brfetier shall be h ? r
at ashuch . atbher hard
ta very drunken man
pta ned three rubles-the product
to go to the formation of a library; and
ats a Ia case of a dispute at billiards the di.
Slhere putant are warned 4ainst using the
ry of cues to baek their opinoa, under apen
COr. ilty of forty kopeck per blow.-teU
MaIA fGazette,
Our Young Readers. they'
lHut
FOND OF BUTTER. He s:t
play ;
Nannin 'utter is fond of butter. lo; c'Ve
WVhen lovely sulinur o0llote Ilo(mll iti.
h0o needt t a k, 'Si. I t e grli a-"uttter, 11(
IHold ng a king cup under the ehi 1. I ot !.
"Iho ou love butt r." for \anlne Nutter- toe:s
" Oh, my :" say all, "bow she does love but.
ter."
hinm.
rNanni · Nutteor so fond of butter, But
Always ask. for moe' on hb r .breatl:
Has even be n known to pout and so tter hard,
If mlUanna bnec;e I alnd S I' onie Sili 1-- antl p
How ,ould they help it-" Why, N:ullie Nut- stay
'Tis butter and bread, not bread and bitter!" yartd,
With Nannle Nuter. 'tlt butter, butter- drlp.
Butter on pudding potatoes, mnat. VC
Tart, cream-pl'. She'd thank ott to shut her TbI
Into a flrkin with nothing to cut
But butter an't butter: for Nannie Nitter, i l il
You know, at present is frlenis with butter. lot- o
"Fomething to eat," they heard her utter '-rs
1cr re the Ints' were lithted for ten.
She wa= gtlen a slice of only butter; their
Ts'te l a bit. Iut.could n ,t see. 1
Then up ke th's fa nishing Nannie Nutter: ann
"Can't I have on it a little bdttu'r"' Dana
-Our Little Onca. wren
Snelts
BRAVE .DOR I. a pul
have
hinet ears old Dor- lady,
othy lived a very unev tful life, for l)a
one week was much the me as anoth- "Ma
er in the placid existence of,the villa ze. least.
On Sunday mornings, when the church once
bells began to ring. you would meet her iDa
walking over the moor with a sprin :v time
step. Her shawl was gray, and her holle
dress was of the most pronounced color ant i
that could be: bought in the market- bled.
town. 11er brown hair was gathered in lu
a net, and her calm eves looked from DiI
under an old-fashioned honnetof straw. Bn
Her feet were always bare, but she .Anti
carried her shoes and stockings slnng till y
over her shoulder. When site got near see il
the church she sat down in the shade of W
a hedge, and pitt them on; then she day i
walkel the rest of the distance with a got t
cramp ed and civilized gait. we h
Every boat went away north one even- barn
ing. and not a man remained in the on y
Bow, excepting three very old fellows, as ce
who were long past work of any kind. lir
When a lisherman grows helpless with shed
age. he is kept by his own people, and it
his days are pasSe l in qu~tly smok ng yard
on a kitchen settle or in Iboking dimly won
out over tl e sea from the bench at the mud
door. A southerly gale with a south- lit
erly sea came away in the night, and 1Ebel
the boats copuld not beat dawn from the bhad
northward. By daylight they were all won
sae in a harbor about eighteen miles Al
north of the village. The sea grew he il
worse and worse, and the usual clouds cam
o foam flew against the houses or Al
skimmed away into the fields beyoud. pigs
When the wind reached its height It
the sounds it made in the hollows he b
were like distant tiring of small arm I 11
r and the waves in the hollow rocks big
seemed to shake the ground over the the
cliffs. A little schooner came round just
) the point. runn'n' before the sea. She boo
might have got clear away, because it to t
a was easy enough for her, had site clawed in t
s a -hort way out, risking the beam set, P
r to have made the harbor where the tish. rubl
a ers were. But the skipper kept herclose one
' in. and presently she struck on a long boo
tongue of rocks that treided far out bar
Vs eastward. The tops of her mas's seemed Ii
itr nty to meet, so it appeared as if she am
had broken her back. The seas 'ew A
sheer over her,and the men had toelimb for
into the rigging. All the women were D)a
o watching and waiting to see her go to f'
pieces. There was no chance of get- thiu
ting a boat out, so the helpless villagers aloe
waited to see the men go down, and the dot
women cried out in their Pihrill, piteous II
manner. l)orothy said: "Will she br.tak Un
up in an hour? If I thowt she would J
! hlng there I would be away for the I
Slife,-oat." But the old men said. the
* "You can never cross the burn." Four wii
e miles .outh, behind the point, there was I
i- a village where a life-boat was kept; but ant
n just half wayv a stream ran into the sea,
I; and across this sartam there was only a boe
n plank bridge. Half a mile below the rul
se bridge the water spread far over the
broadl sand and be amne very shallow tht
and wide. DIorothy spoke nomore, e - go
cept to say: "l'll away." She ran la
sk across the moor for a mile, and then
or scrambled down to the sand, so that the ti:
ill tearing wind might not impede her. It I sh
towas dangerous work for the next mile.
SEvery yard of the way she hadtosplash go
through the foam, because the great to
waves were rolling up very near to the
foot ot the clifis. An extra strong sea
id might have caught her off her feet, but
ap ihe did not think of that; she only
1, thoughtof saving her breath by escaping a
n the di ect onslaught of the wind. W hei m
he she came to the mouth of the burn her p1
Sheart failed her for a little. The:e was cc
t three-quarers of a mile of water, cov
do ered with creamy foam, and she did et
not know but what she might be taken th
up out of her depth. Yet she determined ut
ut to risk it, and plunged in at a run. The h
nd sand was hard under foot but she said, l
g when the piled foam came softly p to '
ne; her waist, she "felt gey fnny." Half- i
Bet way across she stumbled into a hole. h
ad caused by a whirling eddy, and she 1'
Sa thought all was over: but her nerve at
in. never failed her, and she struggled till 4
To. she got a footing again. When she a
reached the hard ground she was wet to la
the neck, and her hair was sodden with ft
her one plUange "over head." Her o
eldthes troubled her wia their weight P
te iacrosalg the moor; 0she put offall
sian he did not need: and Iressed forward n
aof again. Presently shite re~ched the house o
where the coxswain of the life-boat 1
lived. She gasped out :"The schooner!
On the Letc! Norrad." e
rith The coxswain, who had seen the i
his schooner go past, knew what was the (
matter. He said: "Here, wife, look after I a
athe lasse," and ran out. The "lass"'
() needed looking after, for she had
laid fainted. But her work was well done; I
bad the life-boat went round the point, ran I
Id north, and tdbk six men ashore from the t
i schooner. The C'aptain had been washed (
overboard, but the others were saved by I
er Dorothy's daring and endurance. Thet
cost girl is as simple as ever, and she knows
ale nothing whatever about Grace Darling. I
t If she were ollered any reward she
pu would probably wonder why she should '
receive any.--S i Jamed G'azee~
ber,
hall A Little Girl's Stery.
One day, it just rained and rained
ig and rained at our ho:;se, and we had to
e stay in.
for ^ nd every time we went to play any
Sthing, Aunt Ne is said: "Oh, stop that
'in noise, children"'
the And if you took anything. she said:
"Let that be! let that be!" And it was
hap- awful in the ho:use.
how I got a big shawl and spread it over
ed to three chairs and I got my dollies and
Smy dishes and played under the shaw,;
and I asked Danny wouldn't he play
one "*keep house" just to-day, because it
if de- alg and he couldn't play out
I told him 'd lend him my "Dotty"
hard and mvy "Sissy" and my very bestdolly,
man *.Hlens,"-if he'd be real good to her.
xAuct And I'd keep Rose and Violet and Ms
and tilda myself, and then we would have
dim. three children apiece.
t the Rose and Violet are twin. Th y are
Ipen- made out of two dumb.-bals, with a long
" towel painned around eaeh of them.
They ook just exr1a e - nd
they've got round, bald heads just like
reed babies.
But I anny wouldn't play keep house.
He said he'd never be a tom-girl a:tu
play with do l no flmtter if it rained
tolever and ever and ever:
And then he put his hands in his
po.kets and looked the way he a:'w:lv
d(oes when he rou't do it. Anid then
you know there isn't any use in teasing
him.
But after a while it didn't rain so
hard, and Aunt oelia said we might go
and play in the barn. But we mnt-t
stay in the barn and not go out into the
yard, even it it didn't rain one single
We like to play in the barn.
There isn't anyth ng in it but. a big
pile of hav - and in one corner theres
lots of cars of corn.
We play l)anny is a dentist. And the
car:s of corn are ladies conme to have
their teeth pulled.
I walk tht m along over the floor to
Danny, and he screws ti' monkey
wrench down t.ght un one ,,f the rºta
nels-that's a tooth -and then he give.
a pull and out it comes! An I then r
have to holler I ke everything for the
lady, because it hurts her so.
DIannv talks to the lady\. lk says:
"Madam, I won't hurt you in the
least." lie heard a dentist say that
once to a lady.
Danny had a tooth pulled that sanme
time that the ladv did, anti he never
hollered a bit when his to t h was pullet1,
and it hurt him tru'jl-and bled and
" bled.
I ut the lad/ hollered.
t Danny thinks she was a coward.
But I don't; I think it didI hurt her.
And Aunt Nelia said to l)nnny: "\\ at
till you have a double tooth out, and
r see if you don't holler, too"'
f We julhld ever so many tee!!h that
Sday in the harn. But after a while we
i got tired of playing that, and we wished
we had the new little white pigs in the
- barn with us to play with. They were
on y three days old, anti they were just
as cunning and little as they could be.
. Danny said he'd run across to the
shed and get us one apiece to play with.
SBut it was awful muddy in the cow
C yard, and I was a raid Aunt Nelia
v would scold if Lanny got his shoes
a muddy.
But l)anny said he would get U'ncle
dI Eben's big rubber boots off from the
e back porch and put on. and then he
11 wouldn't get muddy a bit.
And so he went and got them. And
N he looked so funny with them on! they
came clear up to his jacket on him.
And then he went to get the little
I. pigs.
it i ut afterwards Danny and me wished
'a he hadn't gone for them at all.
, lie could not walk very well with the
Sbig boots on, and when he got most t1
ie the shed, lie couldn't walk at all. He
d just couldn't take another s'op, and his
e boots sank Was down. And it began
it to rain, and there was Danny sticking
d in the mud!
i, Pretty soon he stepped out of the
h. rubber boot%, and he began to pull at
3e one of the boots, to get it out, and t'he
ig boot flew up, and l)annv fell right over
ut backwards into the mud.
id lie got up and oh, he was just as
so smddqi
w And then we had to no intothe house.
ib for I couldn't scrale tTn ltud off-and
re Danny was so wet.
to And Aunt Nelia scolded like every
t- thing, and she put D:Iany to bed-all
ra alone up-stairs. And rhe made meo tay
he down-stairs.
us litt she didn't know a thing about
sk Uncle Ehen's boots-vet.
Id And I was alraid to tell.
le I could see one of them standing in
I. the mud there yet-out of the kitchep
ur window.
Ias kept looking to see if it was ther-
ut and it always was.
8, After a while Uncle Eben wanted his
a boots, and he said: "Where are my
he rubber boots?"
he Then I hadi to show him where one ot
w the hoots was, and I told him how it
3\- got there, aif.
'n lauzhl,'ii litt Aent *qt.
the that boy to bed already, I eerseatnl
It should now!"
ile. And when Uncle Eben went out and
ish got h's i oot, it was full of water, clear
eat to the top.--Youtl's _Companim.
the
sea Anagrams and Aerostles.
but
nly 'These pithy diversions have often
ing amused the leisu:e of great minds. but
Smore often have proved the serious em
her ployment of men whose mental caliber
fas could hear no heavier metal The
or- acrostic in its simplest form is a poetical
did composition in which the first letters of
ken the several verses spell some word,
ned usually a name. The laborious wits,'
te however, soon came to despise any such
id, easy triumph, and invented acrostics in
Sto which the same name might be found
saf- in the first letters, in the last letters, and
ale, half a dozen times thronuh the stanza.
she Pope antd his friends use' sometimes to
rve amuse themselves by proposing words
till dillicult to match in rhyme, and the
she amusement was at one time quite poput
t to lar in London. Anagrams-the mani
rith facture of other words out of the letters
Her of a given word-have long been in re
ht pate. Wiat, a poet of the seventeenth
'all century, made an anagram on his own
rard name. "A wit." and felicitated himself
ise on his invention. Akih to these speci
boat mens of false wit is punning. This is a
nert vice which has been well known in
every are, and few great names but
the have contributed to the common stock.
the Cicero was a great punster, but his puns
ufter are, of course, untranslatable, the
ass" surest means of detecting a pun being
had the failulre to translate it 'into another
one; language. C: sar sometimes made a
ran pun. and his puns had the reputa
athe tion of being very good. Charles II.,
shed of England, was one of the greatest
d by punsters of his age. h)uring his reign
The this vice spread to every part of the
nows Kingdom. One of his courtiers once
'ling. saw a poor Oxford scholar in his gown,
sie and told him it was too short. "Very
ould well," replied the scholar, "it will be
lon_ enough before 1 get another."
The bystanders latughed, and the court
ier undertook afterwnvard to tell the joke
to the King. "I told him his gown
ined was too short, and he said: ' Very well.
ad to it will I e a long timue beore I get an
other.'" TheKing studied, and 'aid
any- he saw nothing funny in that. "Seither
that do I" replied the courtier, "'but it
sounded funny when hetoldit" Lamb
said: drove his friends nearly distracted with
t was his puns. He was once trmaveling, and
the stage stopped at an inn for dinner.
over After the dinner the coachman came
and with a new passenger: "All full in
hawa; here'" *I can't answer for the rest."
play said Lamb, "b,:t the pudding did the
iso it business for me." Jonson was noto
y out riously fond of punning, while shake
speare was said to be equal to any,
ott Loth in number and variety. Adams
dolly, made a lun while the Declaration of In
oher, dependence was beig signed. "Now.
d Ma- we must all hang together or' we shall
have all hang separtely." Hood was the
greatest punste: in our literary history.
His double puns are famous. "So they
a long went and toldthe sexton, and the sexton
them. tolled the belL" is perh-aPa ,*ee.
and best an""'* "